Canterbury’s And The South Island’s Last Hanging – 5th March 1918
The moment Christchurch divorcee Elizabeth McMahon saw Fredrick William Eggers in handcuffs, she recalled him saying to her only days earlier, “I have made two terrible mistakes”. Fredrick William Eggers was born in Western Australia sometime around 1886. He began his adult life as a farmer but in 1909 was arrested for forgery and sentenced …
